Annette ten Teije is an associate professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her interests include approximate reasoning, formalisation of medical knowledge, configuration of reasoning methods, and diagnosis. She obtained a degree in Computer Engineering in 1991 and spent a year in the computing industry before starting work on her PhD. She earned a PhD (1997) from the University of Amsterdam (SWI) for her thesis entitled "Automated configuration of problem solving methods in diagnosis". She worked as a post-doc researcher at the Medical Informatics unit of the Imperial Research Cancer Fund in London, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (AI) and as a lecturer at the University of Utrecht (CS) before moving to the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2002.